I may re-compile in the new Alpha, just for kicks!
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I got a new problem with alpha3, not being able to use german keyboard layout.
In Quicksetup I select

Code:

de_DE
Europe/Berlin
de

No matter I restart X or reboot, typing in a terminal allways shows no change. I guess that it's us keyboard layout.
Restarting Quicksetup again shows de-latin1. I can change it to de, but running again, it shows again de-latin1 (and in terminal still us layout)

Sound is per default analog. No prolem to hear mp3 with PlayMusic. Sound is good but with "scratches" about every 30sec., more or less. Maybe of interest, after a song is finished, PlayMusic allways try to play the next file. If this is a avi or mp4 movie, MPlayer opens and plays it (more or less).

No problem to change sound to HDMI (even during playing a song ), no scratches. So for normal usage, HDMI seems to be the best for me.

@rrolsbe
IIRC Puppy detects all swap partitions and mounts it, but i don't know the order it uses these partitions. With alpa2 I just deleted the swap partition of the sd card and Sap6 automatically used the swap partition of the usb hd. You can also unmount a swap partition via command line, but I haven't tested in Sap6 and don't remember the command .

Thanks Barry - I was focussing on getting Python / Pygame installed, but I will use your instructions to get the sound to go via HDMI.

Great work by the way! I am a very happy Puppy!

I've posted on the RPi forum about the success with my wireless dongle.
I know the editors of the MagPi magazine pretty well (I did an article on Scratch for them last time). They seem pretty focussed on Debian at the moment. But I am going to try to persuade them to do something on Puppy soon.
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What about /etc/init.d/11alsa_raspi reading a config file? Say.. /etc/rapsi_alsa.conf? Default could be "0" or "1" or "2" or whatever the consensus is and my little gui could be used to change that.

just a thought.

@Lobster, when you fire up that gui, the default should be the "Analog" option radio button. If analog (headphones or external speakers) work for you leave it else try out the other 2. HDMI doesn't work for me, but I think it's the el cheapo gear I have. I might plug in my raspi to the 40" Samsung, (when wifey is at work on Sunday )_________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

Was it true that you needed to buy new kind of Sd cards that the old ones
where the wrong type and that the new ones are special kinds of SD
that maybe is not sold everywhere and have to be bought online from some
other country?

What is referred to SD anyway How big are there? Those I have already
in my many Smartphones are like the nail of a thumb or so.
Say 14mmx10mm and can be put into an adapter that is maybe 23mmx30mm
One SD I have is named Zap microSD 512MB could that then be not compatible being too old and slow?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

The Rpi Foundation recommend Class 4 and above (10 is the highest)
If no class number it will probably not work.
Barry recommends Class 6 as a minimum and I would agree.
Even the same brand of Class 4 can be temperamental.

The Rpi Foundation or someone who gets through a lot recommends Transcend brand SD cards.

As far as I am concerned all SD cards are overpriced and not as reliable as solid state devices should be. However I do not hear complaints from phone and camera users? Are we stressing them more?
Barry is trying to minimise their read writes._________________Puppy WIKI

Barry recommends Class 6 as a minimum and I would agree.
Even the same brand of Class 4 can be temperamental.

The other thing is that the different releases (due to firmware I guess??) work with different ranges of cards.
Puppy and Arch work on cards that the Debian Squeeze release will not tolerate.
I believe the way to go is to move the filesystem to a usb flash drive (or equivalent) and alter the commandline text file accordingly. This is how I do it with my Arch set up (using a USB3 Kingston Elite stick).

So far I am running Puppy off a card, but I might splash out on another high-speed usb flash stick thingy._________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
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